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Writing for Suspense Home Booklet

Over the next two week you will be completing the following booklet which carries on with the final part of your ‘Writing for Suspense’ term. Instructions: ✓ Ensure you attempt every exercise in the pack. ✓ If you make a mistake, please cross out with a ruler and then rewrite,

don’t scribble on it. ✓ Be PROUD of your work. ✓ Hand it back in upon returning to school, specifically your first English

lesson.

The pack includes: ✓ Six lessons worth of work to complete ✓ Space to work on so you don’t need your class book✓ Homework for the new topic after Easter

What you will need: ✓ Yourself ✓ Your imagination✓ Your pencil case including: Pen, pencil, rubber, ruler and a purple pen.

Extra: Seneca is also set for you online: https://www.senecalearning.com/All of the work set will be on Show My Homework just in case you forget. A copy will be there too in case you lose it and need to print it out again.

Any questions just email me on Show My Homework-Miss Rezaei

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The Writer’s Craft: How to improve my Writing

I use some well-chosen vocabulary appropriate to topic. Spelling of common words mostly accurate.

I have a clear purpose and use an appropriate style to keep a reader’s interest. I have a reasonably wide vocabulary chosen for effect. My spelling of common words accurate with accuracy of homophones.

I use a variety of vocabulary, which is often ambitious and generally appropriate to purpose and audience. My spelling is generally correct throughout.

I experiment with a range of sentence structures and a very varied vocabulary in order to create effects.

Writing for Suspense

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Riddles

A Riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed.

Below there are 10 riddles in the table, can you figure them out?

Riddle Your Answer1.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

2. Until I am measured,I am not known.Yet how you miss me,When I have flown!What am I?

3. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played.What am I?

4.Three large people try to crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?

5. A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?

6.You can find me in darkness but never in light. I am present in daytime but absent at night. In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight. What am I?

7. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

8. If you had one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

9. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

10. I am a 6 letter word.Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.What am I?

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Riddles- The Answers

Use the answers below to see how well you did! Write your score at the bottom of the sheet.

Riddle Your Answer1.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

A river

2. Until I am measured,I am not known.Yet how you miss me,When I have flown!What am I?

Time

3. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played.What am I?

A joke

4.Three large people try to crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?

It wasn’t raining

5. A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?

The man was looking for a cure for his hiccups!By pulling out a gun, the bartender scared the man and his hiccups were gone.

6.You can find me in darkness but never in light. I am present in daytime but absent at night. In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight. What am I?

The letter D

7. What goes around the world but stays in a corner? A stamp

8. If you had one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

The match

9. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

Breath

10. I am a 6 letter word.Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.What am I?

CARPET.

6-5-2: tea

4-5-2-3: pear

3-2-6: rat

1-2-6: cat

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Your own suspense storyYou are going to write your own suspense opening in response to the picture below of an abandoned ship. It is a short story yet it does need to follow the conventions of a suspense story.

Think about:

Characters How to build tensionBackstory Beginning, middle and end What language techniques will you use.

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GENERIC CONVENTIONS.

You must try and include at least some of these ‘ingredients’ into your story:

• A sense of isolation/loneliness/remoteness;• The weather affecting the mood;

• Good vs evil

• Darkness

• Creepy noises• Isolated house

• Happening to everyday people

SUSPENSE TECHNIQUES

• Short sentences – speeds the action up; gives a sense of panic.

• Use of noise – describing creaking, breathing, etc. (onomatopoeia)

• Similes - (like or as; the moon looked like a silver eye).

• Repetition – emphasises feelings.

• Alliteration – for emphasis (She saw it and she shivered).

• Metaphors - (The moon was a silver eye).

• Personification - (The house squatted in the grass)

• Ellipses - (… ; She heard a cough behind her …)

• Use of questions - (What was that?)

• Five senses - (Sight, sound, smell, taste & touch)

THE FIVE SENSES.

Try and use all the five

senses:

• Sight

• Sound

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

STRUCTURE.

Think about how the story

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• Punctuation (Exclamation

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• Short sentences

• Short paragraphs

• Choice of appropriate

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Mid point assessing

You should now have completed your first draft of your short suspense story based on the picture given.

Have a think…

How could you improve your sentences?

Example:

Satisfactory sentence:

A flash of brilliant blue and white flicked across my vision.

Building on it:

A flash of brilliant blue and white flicked across my vision. Surrounded.A blanket of nothingness. From nowhere a black blob of menace, cold and cruel blinked and bothered me.

Building on it more:

A flash of brilliant blue and white flicked across my vision.Surrounded. A blanket of nothingness. From nowhere a black blob of menace, cold and cruel blinked and bothered me.A flaky patch of white flashing through the depths.

How did your first draft go?

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Checklist of your work

❑Written in Standard English

❑Written four paragraphs, one for each picture.

Include the techniques for tension in your descriptions

❑Alliteration

❑Personification

❑Simile

❑Use of noise

❑Rhetorical Questions

❑The 5 senses

❑Ellipsis

❑Repetition.

❑Include short sentences

❑Choose words for tension, for a particular effect.

Go through your work, ticking and annotating what you have done from the list. This way you can see what you have and haven’t done. Then rewrite your draft including your EBI in PURPLE

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Final Redraft

❑Written in Standard English

❑Written four paragraphs, one for each picture.

Include the techniques for tension in your descriptions

❑Alliteration

❑Personification

❑Simile

❑Use of noise

❑Rhetorical Questions

❑The 5 senses

❑Ellipsis

❑Repetition.

❑Include short sentences

❑Choose words for tension, for a particular effect.

Go through your work again ticking and annotating what you have done from the list. This way you can see what you have and haven’t done. Then rewrite your redraft one final time including your EBI in PURPLE

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Suspense in Movies

This term covers lighting, camera angles, distance shots and editing.

This covers music, sound effects, diegetic and non-diegetic noises.

This term covers props and costumes. We can tell the time and place of a film or programme by the use of costume and props.

The characters cannot hear this.

A character can be filmed from above, below, or at the same level.

When the camera switches from one shot to another. This can be slow or fast.

Lesson 17-18

You are going to look at suspense in movies in this section-firstly the definitions need to be matched up to the name, these are all movie related!

Editing

Camera angle

Production

Sound

Mis-en-scene

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Suspense in MoviesAnswers

This term covers lighting, camera angles, distance shots and editing.

Production

This covers music, sound effects, diegetic and non-diegetic noises.

Sound

This term covers props and costumes. We can tell the time and place of a film or programme by the use of costume and props.

Mis en scene

The characters cannot hear this. Non diagetic sound

A character can be filmed from above, below, or at the same level.

Camera angle

When the camera switches from one shot to another. This can be slow or fast.

Editing

Lesson 16-18

Extension: What are camera angles?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Can you name any camera angles? • ..• ..• ..• ..• ..

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The Writer’s Craft: How to improve my Writing

I use some well-chosen vocabulary appropriate to topic. Spelling of common words mostly accurate.

I have a clear purpose and use an appropriate style to keep a reader’s interest. I have a reasonably wide vocabulary chosen for effect. My spelling of common words accurate with accuracy of homophones.

I use a variety of vocabulary, which is often ambitious and generally appropriate to purpose and audience. My spelling is generally correct throughout.

I experiment with a range of sentence structures and a very varied vocabulary in order to create effects.

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How does it create tension?

Thinking about the flying start think about the question, write down three reason in the table beneath.

Why do we need these things in a suspense movie? What do they bring to it?

You are going to look at some SCENE GRABS and annotate thinking about how the different aspects add to the tension.

Roof is low, makes people claustrophobic

Cellar is unknown, makes it look like a stereotypical haunted house. It is also dark to look scary.

Spooky gaps of light to create eerie atmosphere

Close up of his face to show his reaction- very important

Face isn’t washed to show he hasn’t washed in a while so must mean he has had a hard time.

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Annotating scene grabs

Using the example on the previous page- annotate the following two camera grabs with information how it builds tension.

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Annotating scene grabs

Using the example on the previous page- annotate the following two camera grabs with information how it builds tension.

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Look over your story that you have written, look at the final draft of it and from the story pick out the 6 moments where there has been tension. Draw them below and underneath write down what they are doing and how it creates tension.

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Choose a movie- preferably a thriller or one that has a lot of TENSION in it. Watch either the beginning 30 minutes or the end 30 minutes and draw 6 scene shots below showing the tension. Write underneath what they do to show TENSION. Film: __________________

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English HomeworkGroup:Teacher:

Homework title: Context of Midsummer Nights DreamDue date: Monday 20th April 2020

Read the article and answer the questions.

Elizabethan Marriages and Weddings - Arranged Marriages

Just as today a woman's wedding was one of the most important days of her life. The major difference to Elizabethan wedding customs to a modern day Western marriage is that the woman had very little, if any, choice in who her husband might be. Elizabethan Women were subservient to men. They were dependent on their male relatives to support them. Elizabethan woman were raised to believe that they were inferior to men and that men knew better!

Disobedience was seen as a crime against their religion. Marriages were frequently arranged so that both families involved would benefit. Marriages would be arranged to bring prestige or wealth to the family - a surprising fact is that young men were treated in a similar way as to women. Many couples would meet for the very first time on their wedding day. This particular Elizabethan custom usually applied to the nobility but the married or religious life were the only real options for the Elizabethans ( a career for a woman was absolutely unheard of.) Regardless of their social standing women and men were expected to marry. Single women who were thought to be witches by their neighbours...

Based on the article, circle the four true statements.

A. Elizabethans did not have arranged marriagesB. Women had little choice in their husbandsC. Women were below menD. Women were not raised to believe they were inferior to menE. Marriages were arranged so only the male partner would benefitF. Marriages would bring wealth to the familyG. Many couples would meet for the first time on their wedding dayH. Single women were though to be angels by neighbours

Feedback:

Bride Bride’s Father Bride’s MotherGroom Groom’s Father Groom’s Mother

‘I am being forced to marry someone I don’t love’‘Through this marriage my daughter will make sure we never go to war with this other family’ ‘I don’t have much say in my daughter’s marriage’‘My son will do well in this match, she’s a worthy partner’‘I love someone else; I wish I could marry her’‘My son can do no wrong, this girl is lucky to have him’.

Elizabethan Marriage DiagramUsing your knowledge and what you have just read label the following people in this diagram:

Once you have identified each of the people in this diagram match the following statements to the correct person

I am:

I think:

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